Michael de Larrabeiti

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that's really interesting. I had no idea the Borribles were so subversive. The number of times I have seen the books in a library somewhere and assumed they were just cosy English children's stories...well, that's learnt me!

I doubt I would have liked the stories as a child, being very much Swap Shop over Tiswas, so to speak - but I liked his engagement with the urban landscape, and his sense of London mythology that I suppose could be said to anticipate Neil Gaiman.

Other chronicles

The Quest of the Parrot Knight

Journal of a knight in time

The memoirs of Sir Guinglain Le Parrot, sometime of the court of King Arthur, transported by means unknown to Brooks's Club in the 1780s, and facing a challenge to a drinking contest from Charles James Fox. To the Buff and Blue, and the Good Old Cause of the Whigs!